2007 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Developing the self-care support program for outpatients and their families who undergo chemotherapy for curing cancer
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18592386
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Clinical nursing
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| Research Institution | Okayama Prefectural University |
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Principal Investigator |
KAKEHASHI Chikako Okayama Prefectural University, Faculty of Health and Welfare Science, Professor (60185725)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
WAKASAKI Atsuko Kawasaki University of Welfare, Faculty of Health and Welfare, Lecturer (50331814)
NAGOSHI Megumi Kibi International University, School of Health Science, Lecturer (20341141)
ISOMOTO Akiko OKAYAMA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY, 保健福祉学部, 助手 (30275367)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2006 – 2007
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| Keywords | Science of Nursing / Cancer Nursing / Chemotherapy / Outpatients and Families / Self-care Support |
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| Research Abstract |
Objectives for the study
1. Defining the physical, mental and social difficulties that outpatients and their families suffering from cancer face, and the way of addressing those issues ;
2. Defining the problems and efforts for the self-care support that nurses involving in chemotherapy for outpatients experience in general hospitals ;
3. Developing the self-care support program based on these resultant definitions as well as on reference materials both inside and outside Japan, and on the observation in relevant sites in the United Kingdom :
Process of the study
In the process of 1, we had an interview with 50 patients and their 14 family members to find that the patients suffer from the side effects associated with the chemotherapy and fear for the life with cancer while controlling the feelings and living their lives ; their family members alone feel the anxiety about the patients' future while watching over and support the their struggles against the disease. The patients and their fami
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ly members share the feeling, which emphasizes on the need for a single support program both for the patients and their family members. Especially, the family members apparently want practitioners to support by hearing their feelings, indicating the need to establish a support program addressing the issue.
In the process of 2, we had an interview with eight nurses, who think that their educational efforts using relevant brochures and so on are not sufficient enough in terms of the support for their emotions, socialization and families.
In regard of 3, we observe in the United Kingdom that the nurses who attend the lectures required for chemotherapy play a key role in many of relevant missions, which doctors do in Japan, cooperating closely with the communities, and that the social system allows the information on the self-care support to be easily acquired through relevant brochures, telephone, Web, etc. We developed a candidate self-care support program that involves patients' families before, during, and after chemotherapy and informs them of adverse effects as well as enhance their controlling feelings over the disease. Less
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